alt Hacker NewsWhy do you need your carrier to like your phone? Do they not mandate interoperability in your country? Are carriers using phone blacklists?
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aianus • today at 6:32 PM
Nothing didn’t bother to support Verizon’s most important 4G band, it’s not blacklisted it just won’t work well outside of major cities.
https://www.theverge.com/23803460/nothing-phone-2-verizon-wo...
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They usse carrier whitelists , Which is even worse.
I cannot activded a EU acquired Pixel for instance. Verizon no longer needs to carrier unlock phones after 60 days too :}
Theres multiple carrier that will auto disable you sim if you move it and charge you a fee for it too !
https://www.howardforums.com/threads/is-metro-charging-to-sw...
https://www.reddit.com/r/MetroPCS/comments/1maa4rt/how_much_...
All of this was such a mind fuck.